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Was googling sometime back… and stumbled upon these amazing lines by Milton Freidman :

There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government.

At the end of these lines… I just pushed back myself, with a slight pressure on the cushion of my chair and inclining my head off its obvious position… i said to myself, “How True!”. Am sure you did the same!  :D

While you were enjoying and celebrating this festive season… the ganesh chaturthi… expressing jubilation over the high decibel sound of bursting of fire crackers and bomb explosions… in some remote village, there was some poor farmer forced to act as a bullock to plough his fields. And even after your festive celebrations are over and you are back to your routine life (still enjoying with kitty parties, office parties, partying at CCD… or basically trying to find any and every dumb reason to party) the difference is that, this farmer as many others, still continues to plough…!!!

And may be one day, one of them might even commit a suicide and you will prefer to turn over the newspaper page that describes this plight of the farmers… Just because you don’t want to spoil your mood early in the morning. But the truth is that, for any other time, you would do nothing different… giving yourself some other stupid reason to escape the news item.

Yes, it does happen… the city man of India conveniently skips from seeing the dark and gloomy face of India… the India that’s still struggling to only make a living. And for those who do care, may be just like you and me… won’t take any step forward than to write a small blog post, and forget about it the very next day. Probably only blaming the Indian government, cursing corruption, nature and all those myriad reasons that one could find to elude his/her responsibility. And if we all do manage to run off scot free, we hate to accept that we are fooling none other than our own selves. (more…)

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Festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi and Diwali have always got Indians closer. Whether in times of the struggle for India’s Independence or today after the 7/11 Mumabi bomb blasts. India irrespective of religion, caste and region has shared a unified thought and realisation of joy.

It’s for these festivals that India today stands united proposing its belief in god and in the people of India.

I thought I should share this above picture with my blog readers here. This one that drew all my attention off the other news items on the front page of today’s Sunday Times, shows a Ganesh pandal being setup in Ahmedabad based on the theme of 7/11 Mumbai train blasts.

India I am proud of you… Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!!!

Scrapboy has been around for quite sometime now… Well for those who have not heard of it and been scrapping friends through orkut, this is the new and supposed to be popular instant messenger for orkut.

Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Skype have been great tools to be in touch with friends. But suddenly with the advent of orkut.com ‘scrap’ has changed meaning from being useless or a refuse to something much more worthy and awaited! Though scrapping, scrapbooks and other new related terminology have got popular, the feel of real-time chatting is somehow lost. That is where the instant messenger, scrapboy makes you feel home.

Scrapboy has suddenly caught all the attention and popularity in a small time span. Certainly because of orkut, than for itself. When I reviewed this software, I found that it was more of a hype, and it still has a long way to go… (more…)